know of a library script?

scifirocket · 06-29-2009, 05:10 PM

I'm looking for a script or online program where an adminstrator can upload documents (such as PDF files) to a website and a user can browse through the archive of documents and download them. I was looking for a wordpress plug-in, but I could not find anything suitable for what I wanted to accomplish for this project.

Costin Trifan · 07-02-2009, 02:47 AM

Make your website an FTP website, so instead using the http protocol to access it you just use the ftp protocol.

prateekshawedesign · 07-02-2009, 06:42 PM

you can use Joomla....they have it inbuilt.

webopius · 07-04-2009, 03:32 AM

In Wordpress 2.7, you should be able to use the Media library in the admin pages to upload your files. Once they are uploaded, you can write a custom page to show the library or use one of the media library plugins (which you may need to modify to handle pdfs rather than images)

**ScriptMan** · 07-04-2009, 07:39 AM

A manual approach may serve you better. You could use any of the many directory scripts, upload your files, create the link and description as an entry.

Indexscript could be modded slightly to serve this purpose and it is free to use.

**Hades** · 07-05-2009, 08:20 AM

I think Joomla comes with a media management system (with PDF support as well), which allows you to upload/browse files, I'm not sure how flexible it is but it should be skinnable.

Also, look for Document Management Systems (DMS) in Google and you'll find quite a few.

If you have average coding skills I'd suggest taking ScriptMan's advice, go commando, code it yourself

scifirocket · 07-07-2009, 01:18 AM

thanks for the suggestions. i'll look into them.

scifirocket · 07-14-2009, 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScriptMan

A manual approach may serve you better. You could use any of the many directory scripts, upload your files, create the link and description as an entry.

Indexscript could be modded slightly to serve this purpose and it is free to use.

i looked into this solution (Indexscript), but i'm developing a feature that needs to be simpler from the back end. i basically want to be able to upload a file and it creates a link on a page automatically allowing the user to download the file. i would develop this myself, but i don't posses the coding abilities. is there is something available that more closely matches what i need?